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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

Blog Articles

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:

Fixing Azure Portal Errors by Chris Pietschmann
Getting Started with Microsoft Azure Services Fabric by Lee Stott
Azure Active Directory Labs Series – Protect Web App by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Does SQL Azure DB support automatic indexed views? by Raghda Alden
HDInsight HBase: 9 things you must do to get great HBase performance by Ashish Thapliyal
How can I set a message to dead lettered – Azure Service Bus by Maheshk
Azure the AT&T IoT Starter Kit by Greg Duncan
How to setup CRON to run a WebJob on the Azure App Service platform by Benjamin Perkins
What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: September 2016 Digest by Buck Hodges
The biggest PCI coverage in the industry just got bigger by Alice Rison
Event Hubs Client for Java 0.8.1 is now live by John Taubensee
Rerunning many slices and activities in Azure Data Factory by Jason H
Microsoft enabling customers to “go to” MARS-E by Matt Rathbun
Partner Center API and Power BI Isaiah Williams
Opsgility Announces new Microsoft Azure Training and Learning Paths via Opsgility
Use Case: Azure Backup in Azure Government by Pishoy Bous
Set up DevTest Labs to send auto-shutdown notification by Xiaoying Guo
Exploring HockeyApp data in Application Insights: introducing the Bridge App by Evgeny Ternovsky
Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine for Windows and Linux now available by Lee Stott
New ARM Templates: To assist O365 Addin Development & Testing by Jamie Dalton
Azure VMs need Internet Access by Nicole Welch
Pen Testing FROM Azure Virtual Machines by Thomas W Shinder
Build you data science skills – and your network – in Atlanta by Amanda Papp
Azure Resource Manager tools for Visual Studio Code by Tobias Zimmergren
Configuring the Azure Kubernetes infrastructure with Bash scripts and Ansible tasks by Stephane Goudeau

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

Azure Redis Cache Best Practices via Azure Friday
Increase Performance through Redis Cluster in Azure Redis Cache by Azure Friday
Loading data into Azure SQL Datawarehouse with Redgate Data Platform Studio by Stuart Leeks
Azure Platform Monitoring Overview by Seth Juarez
Using JSON in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed via Channel 9
Tuesdays with Corey: The Goodness of Azure Logic Apps via Channel 9

Audio / Podcasts

To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:

API Management – Episode 142 via The Azure Podcast
Office 365 News for Education and Onenote – Azure GA Updates, New VM Types and Gartner News | Episode 144 via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud

Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Intel Joule is an IoT Powerhouse by Chris Pietschmann
GrovePi+ Plug-n-Play IoT Platform by Chris Pietschmann
Publishing an ASP.NET Core website to a cheap Linux VM host by Scott Hanselman
PowerShell on Linux – Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner demo | PowerShell Open Source Project via Channel 9
IBM’s Watson, IoT and Weather Forecasting via Adafruit

Book of the Week

Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure

by Michael Collier, Robin Shahan

The material covered in this Free eBook is targeted towards introducing both Developers and IT Professionals to the huge range of features and capabilities within the Microsoft Azure platform.

About the Author

Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.